Postponed for a week the Electoral Commission made the announcement just hours the full polling booths put you to open. Hello and a very warm welcome im. In but when its day two of the Munich Security Conference and with Global Leaders missing in the german city that to discuss peace and diplomacy german chancellor Angela Merkel and the u. S. Vice president mike pence are expected to deliver a jew ling speeches today the conference was opened by its chairman who was making a point about europes role in the wold of three superpowers. He couldnt have made his point more clearly the head of the Munich Security Conference open proceedings wearing an e. U. Hoodie forgoing issuing a wants World Leaders to know that europe has to fulfill its role within the growing struggle of the superpowers the e. U. Russia and china crucial. All new leaders carry an even greater responsibility than in the recent past security chairman defense minister funded lyon gave one of the keynote speeches she began by greeting her british counterpart Calvin Williamson and emphasizing the Strong Partnership between their countries this by breaks it. There is no better place there is no better time to underline the friendship between our two countries germany and the u. K. They stand together shoulder by shoulder as all soldiers do every day in their missions the next month. I will use them said that the u. K. And the e. U. Would continue to work closely on security. For while the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union i want to start by saying our commitments to European Security remain steadfast. One immediately unifying challenges how to deal with russia. Russian Nuclear Missiles have prompted us withdrawal from the Nuclear Arms Treaty i. N. F. Europe fears a new cold war. In munich strictly guarded by the show who foretell top politicians and experts are meeting to discuss how such a walk can be avoided germany wants to do all it can to save the i. N. F. Treaty a nuclear arms. German foreign minister heikal mosque held talks with his russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov of. Russia as current behavior was the only in this treaty hints at the negative impact this could have for the security of everyone involved and especially for us in europe. Given the crisis surrounding the preservation of the i and if treaty we need greater dialogue between americans europeans and russians. High level u. S. Representatives such as if i could trump are also attending before arriving in munich u. S. Vice president mike pence visited the former concentration camp in poland on his flight to germany he accused iran of conducting itself with quote the same semitic hatred as the nazis. At germanys chancellor Angela Merkel is due to speak shortly and well be going live to munich for that she said she wants to speak about the role of europe in the world chief Political Correspondent melinda crane is standing by for us in munich melinda has a new arms race between russia and nato a trade war between china and the us the Munich Security Conference has set itself the goal of trying to create some order out of this chaos off your first day that whats your impression of all the latest seeking this kind of new global order. The leaders heard a very clear warning from the head of the security conference Wolfgang Ischinger you saw him take the stage there in the report wearing that e. U. Sweat shirt with stars on it and he said to them right at the outset of the conference you know what all of you are using this forum too often to talk at each other rather than with each other so a very very clear appeal for him from him there for the people attending this conference and they include Decision Makers from all over the world truly the absolute leaders who could Work Together to try to solve International Challenges for them to really get down to the nuts and bolts of working on solutions but the fact is to some degree the polarization that we have seen in the International Order absolutely is present here at munich as well and i think this year as we have seen it in the last couple of years there is enormous concern about the in adequacy of multilateral institutions and processes to address all of the very severe challenges ranging from a potential new Nuclear Arms Race that you mentioned to challenges like the effects of Climate Change on Human Security on the effects of russian aggression we just heard some very powerful words from the current head of the European Council thats a rotating presidency he is the president of romania and he said look we have a very vulnerable eastern flank we need a much stronger nato presence on that flank that again in direct reference to to the perception that europe is directly threatened by by russia spill. Adler attitude so a whole lot of challenges to be faced and a great deal of concern that we dont have the multilateral will to address them. Multilateralism obviously. A priority for chancellor merkel who is going to be speaking soon well be going live to that speech when she does start speaking what do you expect from her what priorities will she set. I think she undoubtedly will speak as the German Defense minister did yesterday about the need for European UnionMember States to truly coordinate their own military procurement and operations we heard the defense minister talk about the very effective cooperation that has been going on in the Baltic States i think were likely to hear the chancellor talk about that as well to also reassure nato members that that is not in competition with nato that that actually enhances natos own capacity concern about that issue was raised by the British Defense minister whom you saw also in the report going beyond that though i think she certainly will say look we all must Work Together to solve these International Challenges this is something that she says here in this forum every year and she also points out every year that this is not a military challenge alone this is not something that will only be resolved by arms and military cooperation but also by work to address International Problems at their root causes in other words to address the origins of conflict and im sure that we will hear Something Like that again this is also an area where she has often said look when we talk about how much is germany how much is europe contributing for example to nato is efforts it needs to be measured not only in monetary terms and military contributions but also in the degree to which we invest in development in the degree to which we in. Best in International Cooperation because those are the things that really help root out conflict before it begins. All right chief Political Correspondent melinda crane thanks so much will could be coming back to you in the in the coming hour but for now thanks so much for your reporting. Some other news now nigerians were supposed to be heading to the polls today to choose a new president and in a shock move the election has been postponed just a few hours before voting was scheduled to start and polling stations remain shut it was expected to be a tight race between president Muhammadu Buhari and the main opposition candidate businessman and former Vice President atika bucca the chairman of the independent national Electoral Commission made the announcement. We would take your full review of the influences of this loses its over so. That its an issue for you to be the root of their shows. The issue to you is. That of course you do they should pursue. This a lot of. This through. The vision to decide who is who the person do so listen to us and do that. Too this is a way for today all right our correspondent is in lagos live for us again we didnt hear many details there about exactly why the elections are being postponed what more do we know. Well indeed not much details all we know is that they postponed it for operational and logistical reasons the independent Electoral Commission did not go into details at all but what we know is that in the pos days there were several cases of offices of the Electoral Commission setting alight and that burned a lot of the voters i. D. s and also of the caterinas that are necessary for the elections to take place so many believe this postponing could be related to these incidences but we dont know exactly why and a lot of nigerians are indeed surprised that the Electoral Commission did not come up with any details many people actually even angry i just went out on the streets to talk to some people here in lagos and they really expressed a lot of frustration and anger many of them vote early in the early in the morning to go voting but nothing is happening there so on social media that the elections where postponed not alone to talk of the thousands tens of thousands of helpers and workers who are supposed to walk at the polling stations throughout the country is of course they were ready they were expecting for the votes to take place. As you said i mean these things have been happening for the last couple of days but this announcement came late in the middle of the night just before the polls were supposed to open why was it such a last minute thing. You know just five hours before actually the pows were supposed to open and this is pure speculation as of now they gave a press conference weve seen the statements but everybody here surprised why they did it that spontaneous because its not the first time that elections were postponed weve seen it during the last two elections they were both postponed but not on such a short notice and this is really shocking to a lot of nigerians many of them feel actually betrayed what happened right now is that the Major Political parties the a. P. C. And the p. D. P. Party and the tea party theyre actually both condemning what has happened but they also both blaming each other for trying too many police the elections trying to push the elections further to possibly change the results but they of course didnt come up with any details this is also just pure speculation and allegations without any proof ok what happens next early on that any guarantees that the election will happen next saturday i mean all electoral observers on the ground lots of journalism on the ground everybody is actually prepared and everybody was shocked that its postponed so i do not believe that they can reschedule the elections again they have one week to prepare everything now and i do believe things will go ahead in one weeks of time all right a correspondent in lagos thanks so much for joining us ok lets have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world North Koreans are celebrating the seventy seventh anniversary anniversary of the birth of the late leader kim jong il the capital pyongyang was decorated to mock the Public Holiday which is known as the day of the shining star his son and current leader kim jong un also paid his respects. At least seven people have died in violent protests in haiti the protests have been going on for nine days protesters accuse the government of corruption and a calling on the president to resign. Police say five people were killed in a shooting at a suburban Chicago Business the gunman reportedly open fire on friday at his workplace an industrial warehouse and aurora illinois after being fired from his job of fifteen years he also wounded five policemen before he was killed. Ok were going to be continuing our coverage of the Munich Security Conference now in our Political Correspondent to maximally on the joins me now maximiliano at a time of real global uncertainty shifting Global Alliance is what can we expect from chancellor merkel when she when she speaks in the next few moments well shes certainly expected to make a strong statement on multilateralism a topic that she is emphasizing recent weeks once and once again and also have you heard talk about by the German Defense minister also funded line yesterday when she was opening the Munich Security Conference and yeah we also expected to hear something from german chancellor Angela Merkel about use the European Unions role in the world and how their European Union can come together more strongly and play a role for serb multilateralism multilateralism its a word that we often hear that is extremely important. But germany is often criticized for not playing an active enough role in Global Security masses how can germany up its game well its interesting to see because germany seems to have always quiet sort of suspect role is not that seems not that proactive but when it comes to actual security masses looking back to the ukraine crisis for example in two thousand and fourteen german chancellor Angela Merkel was in fact being very proactive she was the one fostering the normandy talks together with france to bring russia and ukraine together at one table and try to solve the crisis resulting effectively into the minsk agreement and i think this is the role we can and should expect more from germany and from the German Government to kind of be a broker in Security Issues and topics for example like the i. N. F. Treaty to bring people back to the table to bring and foster negotiations when those concerns. Ok so were actually seeing live pictures right now of chancellor merkel approaching the. Stage and we will be crossing to her as soon as she starts speaking in the meantime million we will continue with our conversation here you mentioned the i. N. F. Treaty the intermediate range Nuclear Forces tracy. U. S. Vice president mike pence is going to be speaking just off to chancellor merkel the u. S. Has announced its going to be leaving the tree see russia says it will do the same saying this is a threat to European Security what is germany doing about this well germany has announced both the foreign minister and the defense minister also have on the line are we going to save german chancellor Angela Merkel is going to address this issue any further that they want to bring negotiations negotiations back on they dont want to have this just being to solve it into nothingness they just want to give it will more chance and what they what the defense minister was on the phone a lot has said just days before the security conference opened is that she does want to bring china and so the table which is question and vicious project because china currently isnt possible the i. N. F. Treaty but russia the United States have said that not only they were concerned with russia violating the treaty but they also want to have china be more involved because they think china is also not in violation of the treaty because a lot of pasta fits but its violating the issues of the treaty so it will be interesting to see if germany can manage that bring both russia the United States and potentially china into one table three negotiate the i. M. F. Treaty case a very big politics were talking about here now german u. S. Relations are not in a particularly good place right now one particular point of contention is the new gas pipeline thats being built from russia to germany known as north stream too. Could it be said that germany is following an economic agenda here in terms of the stream to thats actually actively threatening relations with the us of a time when german u. S. Relations really need some help coming back to what weve heard yesterday of the security conference it may be actually an issue that hasnt been quite agreed on within the German Government so weve been speaking good obvious been speaking yesterday with both the defense minister and the economics minister and there was a completely different managers on that regards the defense minister has been speaking for example on the concern that the European Union wants to now. Its a sort of majority of principle in Decision Making regarding for example economics Foreign Policy and a lot of the european Member